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March 29, 2013

Two Men Impersonating "The Hangover" star Zack Galiafinakis Brawl On Vegas Strip

A US man who makes a living impersonating the character Alan from The Hangover has expressed his frustration that another man doing the same thing has found viral infamy from a violent brawl video.

In footage posted online on Monday, the lookalike is seen sitting on a man he had knocked out during a fight on a Las Vegas street.

Later in the video, the crowd cheers on as the lookalike repeatedly headbutts the other man.

The impersonator, wearing no pants and wearing a baby carrier containing a doll, is later seen being arrested and taken away by police.

The video is currently gathering traction on LiveLeak and YouTube, upsetting the assailant's main Vegas rival, Brian Petre.

"For me this is a bit of an insult on my career and livelihood," he told MSN.

http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8633652/hangover-impersonator-filmed-in-violent-brawl


It's not illegal it's frowned upon.
March 29, 2013

Dumb Criminals: Man Attempts To Use Fake Penis To Pass Drug Test

(KMOV) – A Lake St. Louis man is accused of using a fake penis while submitting a urine sample as part of a probation drug test in St. Charles on March 20.

Sydney Levin, 34, was charged March 21 with possessing a forging instrument.

According to court documents, an officer spotted Levin using a prosthetic penis, known as a Whizzanator, to submit a fake urine sample during a mandatory drug test at the St. Charles Probation and Parole office in the 200 block of Compass Point Dr.

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Police--200448931.html


March 29, 2013

Sheriff's phone Number for sex assault line turns out to be phone sex talk line

LAKE COUNTY, Fla. —


The number for a phone sex line ended up on a flyer for the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

The number was mistakenly listed as a hotline for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. The flyers were handed out to crime victims for years.

A victim of domestic violence had one of the flyers from the Sheriff's Office. When she called the hotline number, she received a message she didn't expect to hear.

"Welcome to America's hottest talk line. Ladies, to talk to interesting and exciting guys, free, press 1 now," the message said.

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/phone-number-sexual-assault-line-turns-out-be-sex-/nW6zS/


March 29, 2013

Celebrating Good Friday In The Philippenes Apparently Involves Real-Life Crucifixions

Filipino devotees re-enact Christ's crucifixion

Catholic devotees on the Philippines' island of Luzon, were nailed to wooden crosses as thousands of spectators watched the reenactment of Jesus Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday.

Aside from the crucifixions, dozens of barefoot and shirtless devotees walked on gravel streets and whipped themselves with thin bamboo strips on a rope while others carved their backs with shards of glass.

Such rituals in northern Philippines, are extreme displays of religious

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=157155709


Man I'll take the Easter Egg hunt thanks.
March 28, 2013

Convicted Drug Dealer Sentenced To Writing 5,000 Word Essay On Dangers Of Pot

Terry Bennett, Convicted Drug Dealer, Sentenced To Writing 5,000-word Essay On Dangers Of Pot (VIDEO)

The writing is on the wall for convicted drug dealer Terry Bennett: He'll be going into jail next week if he doesn't finish a 5,000-word essay on the dangers of marijuana.

Bennett, 32, from Gloucestershire, UK, was caught with more 2 pounds of cannabis and admitted possession with intent to supply.

Bennett, who lives with his mom, was sentenced to 240 hours of unpaid work, but claimed a snowboarding injury made that impossible, according to the Metro.

Judge Julian Lambert came back with an alternative sentence: A 5,000 word essay on the dangers of drugs and their effect on society.

Bennett was shocked by the pot-related punishment because it's been years since he last wrote a report of this scale.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/terry-bennett-convicted-5000-word-essay_n_2971334.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news


That would be hilarious if this were the fate awaiting Walter White and Jesse Pikmin...
March 28, 2013

Rich Douchebags, Weird News:

Detroit Millionaire Buys Every Foreclosed Home In County

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. (WJBK) -
The man who bought every tax foreclosed property in Macomb County says he is willing to sell some of those houses for near-auction prices.

Watch Alexis Wiley's full video report above.

Bill McMachen is a former yacht dealer and the former owner of the MacRay Harbor, but now he is getting into the real estate business. That's because he bought all 650 tax foreclosed properties in Macomb County with a price tag of $4.8 million.


Read more: http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19173858/millionaire-buys-every-tax-forcloused-home-in-macomb-county#ixzz2Or0Mq5Zo


And this one is just plain creepy:

Legal maneuver seen as bid tap his kids' trust fund, shield assets from family of student he killed in drunken crash.

A Florida appeals court has nullified a polo mogul's adoption of his 42-year-old girlfriend in an apparent bid to tap his children's trust fund and shield his assets from the family of a student he killed in a drunken crash.

The 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that John Bailey Goodman, founder of the International Polo Club in Palm Beach, had not notified his two children, their mother, their guardian or the parents of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, who had sued him for wrongful death over the February 2010 crash and were seeking damages.

Goodman's attempt to conceal the adoption "constituted a fraud on the court," the appellate judges wrote in a nine-page opinion.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/27/florida-polo-mogul-adoption-girlfriend/2026447/


March 28, 2013

Dumb Criminals: 15 Year Old Beer Thieves Cut Hole Into Convenience Store Roof, Caught On Camera

This dude hit the roof just get a drink.

Kwik King Food Store workers closed the Ocala's store at 11:30 p.m. last Tuesday, according to a news release from the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

But when they returned the next morning, they reportedly found Styrofoam on the floor, a hole in the roof and several cans of Four Loko and Monster Energy drink on the floor.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/strange/floriduh-blog/sfl-swipe-energy-drinks-20130323,0,7968958.story


March 28, 2013

The FBI's most read memo is about a UFO sighting

The FBI says its most viewed public record is a memo from 1950 recounting a strange story someone told an agent about three "flying saucers" that were allegedly recovered in New Mexico.

The so-called Hottel memo was first released in the late 1970s under the Freedom of Information Act, but it's been viewed nearly a million times since 2011, when the FBI launched an online database of public records called the Vault.

Dated March 22, 1950, the memo was addressed to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and written by Guy Hottel, then head of the Bureau's field office in Washington, D.C. Hottel was reporting what an Air Force investigator said that someone else told him about the crashed saucers.

http://www.livescience.com/28228-ufo-hottel-memo-fbi.html

March 27, 2013

Cop moonlights in punk band, gets injured, collects pension, continues to tour


Punk Rock Port Authority Cop Allegedly Faked On-Job Injury, Toured With Band

We all know punk rock is about wearing a torn Bad Company tee and kicking over little kids' toy trucks in Central Park playgrounds while secretly jamming out to Fall Out Boy in the privacy of your own bedroom sticking it to the man, but one Port Authority cop moonlighting as a rocker allegedly took it farther than all those wannabe Joey Ramones out there. He was arrested and arraigned today for filing injury-related insurance claims while simultaneously playing rock shows with his band...seemingly uninjured. Anarchy in the PAPD, man!

According to a complaint filed in federal court yesterday, Christopher Inserra, who has been with the Port Authority for the past five years, claimed he injured his right arm on the job. And that injury, about which Inserra consulted several PA doctors, persisted for quite some time, with Inserra reportedly collecting full pay and $31,486.66 in short-term disability payments from June 2010 until March of last year. But though Inserra insisted he "continued to be in constant pain, had difficulty using his right hand, and could not fully bend his right arm at the elbow," he must have been touched by the healing power of rock!

http://gothamist.com/2013/03/26/port_authority_cop_arrested_for_fak.php


LMAO at that first sentence.
March 27, 2013

Swiss designer invents portable, roofless hotel room

Hotels can be a hassle. You have to read reviews, check booking sites, arrange transportation, and sometimes deal with noisy neighbors. If you got a Hotello instead, you could just pop open your hotel room wherever you felt like it and settle in for some quality work or nap time.

Hotello is a concept portable hotel room and working space created by architect Antonio Scarponi and artist Robert de Luca for Swiss design group Das Konzept. The whole thing packs down into a red trunk with wheels on the bottom, so you could conceivably carry it with you, though it would have to go into checked baggage on a plane, and you'd probably have to cough up a lot of extra luggage fees.

Hotello has a metal structure to hold up sound-absorbent curtains. Inside, there's a bed, table, stool, and place to hang your clothes. A lamp on a poseable arm lights up the space. If there's a flaw in the plan, it's the lack of bathroom facilities. Also, there's no roof, so you'd be open to the whims of the elements.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57576363-1/designers-cram-entire-hotel-room-into-a-suitcase/


If he invented one with a roof , imagine how many of these things would be parked outside of bars.

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